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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
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
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
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending

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