MOLIERE - Things are not worth as much as they are made to be worth, RENÉ DESCARTES - I think, therefore I am, ALBERT CAMUS - One cannot be on the side of those who make history, but at the service of those who suffer from it., MONTESQUIEU - Countries are not cultivated by reason of their fertility, but by reason of their freedom.,  TOCQUEVILLE - To neglect freedom is to let it escape, BASTIAT - Plans differ, planners are all alike., PROUDHON - The peace obtained with the point of the sword is nothing more than a truce., FOURIER - The deep study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries., DIDEROT - We swallow in one gulp the lie that flatters us and drink drop by drop the truth that embitters us, FOUCAULT - People evolve over the years, we are not static beings., D’ALEMBERT - War is the art of destroying men, politics is the art of deceiving them., TURGOT - The principle of education is to lead by example., THE MARQUIS DE SADE - To know virtue, we must first become familiar with vice., TAINE - No human creature is understood by any human creature. At most, out of habit, patience, interest, friendship, they are accepted or tolerated., COMPTE - Knowing to foresee, foreseeing to exercise power., COUSIN - Duty and right are brothers; their common mother is freedom. They are born on the same day, and grow, develop and die at the same time, SIMON  - Friendship is a contract by which we obligate ourselves to do small favors for others so that others will do big favors for us., RAVAISSON - The whole scale of beings is but the continuous progression of the successive powers of one and the same principle. The lower limit is necessity, the upper limit, the Freedom of understanding, OLYMPE DE GOUGES - Freedom and justice consist in giving back everything that belongs to the other person., CATHERINE TROTTER - The best that can be said of passion is that it is the noblest frailty of the mind, but it is still a frailty and becomes a vice if it is cultivated as an exalted virtue.,

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