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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical 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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind

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