Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
Europe is a state with several provinces
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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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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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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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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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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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