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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

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.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing

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