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The less men think, the more they talk.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
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 is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful

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