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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
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
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
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies

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