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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

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty

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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