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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
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.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic

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