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In many cases we do out of vanity or fear what we would do out of duty.

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A community that cannot think, cannot live.

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Bad laws will always find, and contribute to creating, men worse than them, in charge of executing them.

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It would be absurd to ask of calculation what self-sacrifice can provide.

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The one who is unaware of a duty is not as guilty as the one who accepts it and tramples on it.

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All power falls at the impulses of the evil it has done. Every fault it has committed becomes, sooner or later, a battering ram that contributes to bringing it down.

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There is so much justice in charity and so much charity in justice that the hope of the day when they are confused does not seem crazy.

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Boredom is a disease of the understanding that only happens to the idle.

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The poor ruin themselves the moment they cease to be sober.

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Society cannot, in justice, prohibit the honest exercise of their faculties to half of the human gender.