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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
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
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
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
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
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
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
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

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

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