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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
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
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
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

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