1. 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. - Montesquieu

2. There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. - Montesquieu

3. There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. - Montesquieu

                                

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