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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Baron de Montesquieu

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

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