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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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
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
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous

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