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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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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic

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