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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Baron de Montesquieu

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
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
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
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
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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