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

Baron de Montesquieu

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Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
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
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
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

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