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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.

Baron de Montesquieu

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Art History Philosophy
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
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
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty

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