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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Baron de Montesquieu

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
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 Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
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

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

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