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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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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