“Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractés", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("éventuellement", Fr.) in another.”

— African Spir

Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 45.

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Russian philosopher 1837–1890

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Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 42.

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