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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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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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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Luxury ruins republics poverty, monarchies.
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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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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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