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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

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