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While lawyers and politicians celebrate the virtues of the rule of law, reformers lament its shortcomings, and cynics question its professed equivalence with justice.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
“Reflection poisons desire.”
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness

Nikolai Gogol
“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

René Descartes
“I think; therefore I am.”
Rene Descartes

Archibald Wavell
“After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.”
Archibald Percival Wavell

Ivan Turgenev
“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

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