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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
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
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
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
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War

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