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The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of... →
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?