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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

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs

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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