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

Baron de Montesquieu

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
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 majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
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
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked

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