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| Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well |
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| Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment |
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| Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess |
| Labor; Moderation |
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| Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man. |
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| The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction. |
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| The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. |
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| The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it. |
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| The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. |
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| The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society |
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| The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. |
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| The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards. |
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| The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. |
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| The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force |
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| The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life |
| Living |
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| The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences |
| Experience; Living |
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| The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. |
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| The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty |
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| The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man |
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| The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. |
| Education |
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| The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. |
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