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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

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