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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
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
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

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