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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Baron de Montesquieu

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
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
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
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
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
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

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