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Baron de Montesquieu

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
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
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
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

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