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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
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
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
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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Aunt Believe East
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
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
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
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

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