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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
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
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time

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