If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFalse happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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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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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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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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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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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.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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