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  2. Liberté, égalité, fraternité - Wikipedia

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    Liberté, égalité, fraternité (French pronunciation: [libɛʁte eɡalite fʁatɛʁnite]), French for ' liberty, equality, fraternity ', [1] is the national motto of France and the Republic of Haiti, and is an example of a tripartite motto.

  3. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - Wikipedia

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    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1789), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human and civil rights document from the French Revolution; the French title can also be translated in the modern era as "Declaration of Human and Civic Rights".

  4. Best of all possible worlds - Wikipedia

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    Evil may be said to exist in the same way the hole of a donut exists: the donut was created, but the hole itself was not made, it was just never filled in – it is an absence. [10] And just as the hole could not exist without the donut, evil is parasitic upon good, since it is the corruption of a good nature. "God is infinite, and the devil is ...

  5. The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Wikipedia

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    A common meaning of the phrase is that wrongdoings or evil actions are often undertaken with good intentions; or that good intentions, when acted upon, may have bad consequences. [1] An example is the introduction of Asian carp into the United States in the 1970s to control algal blooms in captivity.

  6. Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne - Wikipedia

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    These lines refer specifically to the common rebuttal made by the optimists of the time as to the problem of evil. Although the presence of evil in the world is evident, human beings cannot understand the motions of God. The suffering in the earthquake played a part in the greater good somewhere else. Yet in this direful chaos you'd compose

  7. Key quotes from French Prime Minister Bayrou's parliamentary ...

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    PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday told lawmakers that France was drowning in debt, but pledged to listen to ideas to renegotiate a landmark 2023 pension reform in ...

  8. QUOTES-French political leaders on how to find a government ...

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    This means that either we are irresponsible, at which point everyone says 'it's my programme that will prevail, we're the ones who won with battles over numbers', or we say 'we're going to have to ...

  9. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    This later led to the French Revolution of 1789 and the concept of Human Rights (Droits de l'Homme in French). Filippo Mazzei , an Italian physician, philosopher, diplomat, and author, whose phrase "All men are by nature equally free and independent" was incorporated into the United States Declaration of Independence [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ]