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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
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
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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

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