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Baron de Montesquieu

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.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
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
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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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