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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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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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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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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines they feel.
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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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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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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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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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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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I should like to abolish funerals the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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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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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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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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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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