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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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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
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
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

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