What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIf 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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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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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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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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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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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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