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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Baron de Montesquieu

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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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Magic Two Wisdom
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

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