Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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  Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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  It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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  Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christia

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  Common sense is not so common.

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  What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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  All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

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  Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

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  We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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  We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

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