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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

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A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
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
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
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
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
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
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
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
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
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

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