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"Leges bello siluere coactae." [But silenced now are laws in war.] – Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, "Pharsalia", Book I, line 277.
"So far as I am acquainted with the principles & Doctrines of Free Masonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind. If it has been a Cloak to promote improper or nefarious objects, it is a melancholly proof that in unworthy hands, the best institutions may be made use of to promote the worst designs." – George Washington, in a draft of a letter to the Grand Lodge of Free Masons of the State of Maryland (8 November 1798).
"Metaphysics reflects on the nature of the existent and on the nature of truth. Metaphysics lays…
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