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«The two great movers of the human mind are the desire for good, and the fear of evil»
«A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it»
«What signifies protesting so against flattery! when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s»
«When a man is invited to dinner, he is disappointed if he does not get something good»
«To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself»
«No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous»
«All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness»
«To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed»
«Allegories drawn to great length will always break»
«In sovereignty there are no gradations»
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