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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
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It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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I should like to abolish funerals the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Republics end through luxury monarchies through poverty.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines they feel.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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