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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Bigs Favors Friendship
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
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
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
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Learning Littles Study
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

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