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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

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

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

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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

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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.

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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

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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.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

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