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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

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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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men 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 is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise

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