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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

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Europe is a state with several provinces
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In republican governments, men are all equal equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Republics end through luxury monarchies through poverty.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Luxury ruins republics poverty, monarchies.
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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