A Quote by Epicurus

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

Epicurus

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Against Contracts Doing Engagement Existence Guard Independent Injury Itself Justice Mutual Results Sustaining Wherever

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Epicurus
Greek - Philosopher
341 BC - 270 BC

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Kevin Rudd

Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

Alexander Hamilton

What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence?

Mary C. Ames

All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

Lysander Spooner

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Bill Vaughan

Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.

Gautama Buddha

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Thomas Jefferson

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John C. Bogle

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Jane Austen

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Samuel Johnson

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

H. L. Mencken

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

Thomas Paine

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Ron Chernow

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