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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
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"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."
"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."
"Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."
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"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet."
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