There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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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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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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