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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
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
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading

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