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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Baron de Montesquieu

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Country Men Nothing Worth
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Extremes Mankind Moderation
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
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
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
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Cleanly Feel Passion
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Government Law Thinking
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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