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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War

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