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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
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
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
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War

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