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Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.

Happy are those few nations that have not waited till the slow succession of human vicissitudes should, from the extremity of evil, produce a transition to good; but by prudent laws have facilitated the progress from one to the other!

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.