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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Baron de Montesquieu

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
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
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions

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