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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Baron de Montesquieu

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
…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
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
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
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
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power

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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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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