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Baron de Montesquieu

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
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked

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