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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
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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Government Order Political
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
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
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

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