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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

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society

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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