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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

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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
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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 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
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time

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