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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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 severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking

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