Poems List

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
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Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.
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The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
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Six well-spent years will pay off all the evil you have committed.
The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.
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Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.
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Everything is perfect coming from the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.
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The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
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It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
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The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.
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