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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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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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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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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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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Vanity and pride of nations vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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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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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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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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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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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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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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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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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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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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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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