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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without havi...more

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...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the firs...more

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Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.

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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sent...more

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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)