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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
[ Freedom ]
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A feeble body weakens the mind.
[ Health ]
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
[ Words ]
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
[ Silence ]
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
[ Misfortunes ]
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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
[ Faith ]
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
[ Children ]
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
[ Uncategorised ]
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
[ Conscience ]
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
[ Judgment and Judges ]
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
[ Life and Living ]
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
[ Truth ]
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
[ Fame ]
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
[ Laughter ]
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
[ Gratitude ]
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
[ Heroes and Heroism ]
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
[ Enjoyment ]
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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
[ Suffering ]
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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
[ Uniqueness ]
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
[ Insults ]
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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
[ Confession ]
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
[ Work ]
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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
[ Freedom ]
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
[ Truth ]
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
[ Heart ]
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
[ Love ]
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
[ Evil ]
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
[ Goodness ]
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[ Patience ]
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
[ Marriage ]
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
[ Repentance ]
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
[ Slavery ]
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
[ Risk ]
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
[ Doctors ]
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
[ Freedom ]
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
[ Coward and Cowardice ]
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
[ Integrity ]
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
[ Happiness ]
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
[ Children ]
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
[ Promises ]
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To live is not breathing it is action.
[ Life and Living ]
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
[ Virtue ]
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
[ Fortune ]
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
[ Sympathy ]
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
[ Motivation ]
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
[ Wisdom ]
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
[ Guilt ]
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