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Baron de Montesquieu

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

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