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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
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
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
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
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
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
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

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