Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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