An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIf 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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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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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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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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