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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
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
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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