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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
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
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

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