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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

It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
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
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
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
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority 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

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