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It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.

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In the actual state of social relationships, the forms (formes, Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
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Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.
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The feeling (sens, Fr.) of solidarity that is born amidst a community rest on the feeling of antagonism arouse (aroused ? arose ?... sorry, - suscité, Fr.) by those who are opposed to it. Most of the time we only adhere to a party or a group, in order to better (or more, - pour mieux se, Fr.) differentiate ourselves of another.
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To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.
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To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want (vouloir, Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.
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If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - voulue, Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -favoriser, Fr.) his self-control.
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Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that (et avec cela, Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self (moi, Fr.) so hardly worthy (digne, Fr.) of it.
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Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.
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If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations (bases morales stables, Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed).
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In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - impérissable, Fr.) good.
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There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible (soit possible, Fr.) now, if this was not the case, it would not be worth the trouble that humanity continue to vegetate without aim.
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What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.
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Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.
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