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

Baron de Montesquieu

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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
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
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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