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• Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
• If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
• Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with…
• Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us…
• Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
• The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right…
• Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door…
• I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
• Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.
• A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
• Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
• Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

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