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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

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
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
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical

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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