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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Baron de Montesquieu

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
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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Believe Gratitude People
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical

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