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

Baron de Montesquieu

Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
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
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
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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 are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
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
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty

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