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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Baron de Montesquieu

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
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
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
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
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
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
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy

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