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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

Baron de Montesquieu

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
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
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men

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