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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing

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