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" Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us. "
Born
Limit
Knowledge
" A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death. "
Death
Birth
His
" But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. "
Experience
Abuse
Authority
" Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? "
You
Think
Reveal
" I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. "
World
Wise
Succeed
" I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. "
Person
Wanting
Stop
" In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. "
Diversity
Lost
Motion
" Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. "
Whatever
Liberty
Laws
" Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer. "
Favor
Me
May
" Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. "
Men
Who
Very
" Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. "
Longer
Misfortune
Loved
" People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. "
See
Here
People
" Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. "
Nature
Speaking
Favor
" Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. "
More
Human
Reason
" Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. "
Luxury
Through
Republics
" 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. "
Him
Slavery
Right
" Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. "
Themselves
Union
Society
" The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. "
Begins
Government
Principles
" 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. "
War
Two
Enemy
" There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. "
Shield
Justice
Law
" 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. "
Us
Bond
Someone
" The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. "
Nature
State
Slavery
" The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. "
Succeed
Success
Long
" Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. "
Much
Minds
Weak
" 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. "
May
Liberty
Body
" You have to study a great deal to know a little. "
Great
You
Study
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