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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Description Paradise Sensible
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Citizens Men Naked

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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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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