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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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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Body Giving Law
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
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
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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