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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Baron de Montesquieu

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.
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Happiness Laughter Men
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty

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