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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
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
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic

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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