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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
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
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism

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