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

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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
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
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 are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State

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