An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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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.Charles de Montesquieu
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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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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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu
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