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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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