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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

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.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute...

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and...

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

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