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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain

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