Circumstances Quote by Victor Cousin

“Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.”

Victor Cousin

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The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

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“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.”

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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

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We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

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