When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIf 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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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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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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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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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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