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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Baron de Montesquieu

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
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
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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement

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