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"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
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"Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
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"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
Men
"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
Friendship
"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."
God
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
Desire
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
God
"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
Mind
"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
Happiness
"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."
Men
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