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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

Baron de Montesquieu

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
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
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

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