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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.
War is an ugly thing， but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war， is much worse.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
To act agreeably to our nature is virtue.
To be like God， and to follow after Him， is the business and happiness of rational creatures.
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calls religion.