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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

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
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
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander

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