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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.


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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE But a wife..."
"...is an individual who can be interesting when one makes use of her, but one m...
MARQUIS DE SADE Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman i...
MARQUIS DE SADE Women are not made for one single man; 'tis for men at large Nature created them.
MARQUIS DE SADE From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clerg...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of th...
MARQUIS DE SADE Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider&...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate th...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their c...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each p...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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