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

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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies

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