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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.

Baron de Montesquieu

Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
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
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.

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