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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin

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