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Baron de Montesquieu

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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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Believe Gratitude People
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion

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