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False 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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
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
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
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
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated

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