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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
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
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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 English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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