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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
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 state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government

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