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

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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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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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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
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