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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

Baron de Montesquieu

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
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
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

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