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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
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
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty

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