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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
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
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
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Mankind Wickedness
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Learning Littles Study
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership

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