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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

Baron de Montesquieu

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
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
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

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