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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Baron de Montesquieu

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth

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