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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical

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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