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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

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