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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
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
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

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