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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic

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