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| It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only | | Honore de Balzac | |
| Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. | | Samuel Johnson | |
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| No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short | | Thomas Hobbes | |
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| Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. | | Edmund Burke | |
| Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners | | Chamfort | |
| Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. | | Chamfort | |
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| Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored | | Lord Byron | |
| Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness | | Thomas Paine | |
| Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress | | Lord Byron | |
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| The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government | | George Washington | |
