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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

Baron de Montesquieu

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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
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
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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

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