- Nov 07, 2020
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- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
- Paradise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
- Luxury
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
- Begins
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
- Enact
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
- Favor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020