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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

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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic

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