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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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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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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Luxury ruins republics poverty, monarchies.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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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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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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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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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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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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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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