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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
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
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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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Gratitude Men Ties
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

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