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

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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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Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in a part...more

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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

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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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Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved mores still have difficulty de...more

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From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto nulla est spes, wherever it prevails, admits no other ...more

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O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this...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)