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• Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
• An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
• The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a…
• Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have…
• I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
• Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
• The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
• Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
• We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that…
• There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second,…
• There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater…
• The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

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