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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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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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
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
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason

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