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“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?”

Source: THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK

“For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.”

Needs May Law Manners Good Man Good Manners

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws. [Lat., Vir bonus est quis? Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.]”

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Author:Horace

“For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]”

Needs May Law Manners Good Man Good Manners

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.”

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Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.”

Men Government Law Cities Good Man

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.”

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Book:Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

Source: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment