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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Decency

François de La Rochefoucauld

WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Decency

Henry Louis Mencken

JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

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Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.

Marcus Tulius Cicero

PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

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No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

Decency

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

4.2 · 22 votes · 156 reads

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