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although jus , properly so called , is really very different in its nature and has this for its special office , - to leave to another what is his , to give to him what we owe . 11. And what we have said would still have great weight ...
although jus , properly so called , is really very different in its nature and has this for its special office , - to leave to another what is his , to give to him what we owe . 11. And what we have said would still have great weight ...
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It is most true [ as Cicero says ] that everything loses its certainty at once if we give up the belief in rights . 23. If no society whatever can be preserved without the recognition of mutual rights , which Aristotle [ rather Plato ...
It is most true [ as Cicero says ] that everything loses its certainty at once if we give up the belief in rights . 23. If no society whatever can be preserved without the recognition of mutual rights , which Aristotle [ rather Plato ...
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We are to provide a remedy for both disorders , both for thinking that nothing is allowable and that everything is . 30. Moreover , having practised jurisprudence in public situations in my country with the best integrity I could give ...
We are to provide a remedy for both disorders , both for thinking that nothing is allowable and that everything is . 30. Moreover , having practised jurisprudence in public situations in my country with the best integrity I could give ...
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In order to give proofs on questions respecting this natural law , I have made use of the testimonies of philosophers , historians , poets , and finally orators . Not that I regard these as judges from whose decision there is no appeal ...
In order to give proofs on questions respecting this natural law , I have made use of the testimonies of philosophers , historians , poets , and finally orators . Not that I regard these as judges from whose decision there is no appeal ...
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The opinions of poets and orators have not so much weight ; and these we often use , not so much in order to claim assent to what they say as that we may give to what we say something of ornament from their modes of expression . 48.
The opinions of poets and orators have not so much weight ; and these we often use , not so much in order to claim assent to what they say as that we may give to what we say something of ornament from their modes of expression . 48.
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