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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

Baron de Montesquieu

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
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
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
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

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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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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