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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

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
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
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
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
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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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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