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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Believe Gratitude People
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Human Justice Rights Threat
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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

Hate Running Thinking
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue

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