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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

Baron de Montesquieu

Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
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
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence

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