Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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