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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

Baron de Montesquieu

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
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
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

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