All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.
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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
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What worries you, masters you.
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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