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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Baron de Montesquieu

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Liberty Philosophical
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
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
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society

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