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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

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