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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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War

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