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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

Baron de Montesquieu

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
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
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

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