One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
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Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, And speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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