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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Baron de Montesquieu

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite 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
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
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
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
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

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

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