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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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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
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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Government Law Thinking
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
[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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Believe Kings Religion
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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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Law Passion Powerful

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

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