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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
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
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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