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"Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des lois toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie. (There is no man so virtuous that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the law, he would not deserve to be hanged ten times in his life.)"
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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"

"It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life?Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?"

"I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer."
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"Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject."

"Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own."

"It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements."
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