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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Baron de Montesquieu

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
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
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
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 life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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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Favor Government People
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness

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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