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Let a man do his duty first, without asking whether he will be happy or not, and happiness will be the inseparable accident which attends him.
Society arises out of the wants of man. His first want is food; his second a house; his third a coat. The sense of these needs and the possibility of satisfying them by exchange, draw individuals together on the same spot; and this is the beginning of a State, which we take the liberty to invent, although necessity is the real inventor.
According to him, the true education is that which draws men from becoming to being, and to a comprehensive survey of all being.
