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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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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World

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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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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