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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform

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