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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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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Believe Miracle Vanity
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs

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