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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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

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