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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

Baron de Montesquieu

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Philosophical Spirit
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
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War

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