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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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
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
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

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