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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
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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Divorce Given Moments
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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
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
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties

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