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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
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
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

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

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