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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

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
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
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
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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
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.
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Example Law Morality
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men

To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

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