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Baron de Montesquieu

What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
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
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise

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