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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

Baron de Montesquieu

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
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
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
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking

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