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“All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.”

— Baruch Spinoza

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Wikiquote: Baruch Spinoza
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Ch. 10, Of Aristocracy, Conclusion

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Spinoza, Baruch. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Baruch Spinoza. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza

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