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 MONTESQUIEUThe 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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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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