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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
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
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

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