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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical

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