The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThus 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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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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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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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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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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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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