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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 is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
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
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
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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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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