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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Baron de Montesquieu

…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very

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