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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Baron de Montesquieu

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

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