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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

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
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
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
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State

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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