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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

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