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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Baron de Montesquieu

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
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
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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Giving Men Slavery
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
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
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake

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