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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Baron de Montesquieu

Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking

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