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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Baron de Montesquieu

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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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Country Government Reality
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed

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