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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
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
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
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
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
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers

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