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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

Baron de Montesquieu

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Freedom Liberty Missing
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
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
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty

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