False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUOne more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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