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

Baron de Montesquieu

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
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
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
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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
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

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