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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
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
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards

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