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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

Baron de Montesquieu

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
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
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading

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