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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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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
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
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
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
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
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
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

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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