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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
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
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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

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