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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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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Law Passion Powerful
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

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