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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

Baron de Montesquieu

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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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Enough Kind Moral
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
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
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
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
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical

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