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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
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
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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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May Obliged Wander
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
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
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep

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