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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Baron de Montesquieu

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three

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