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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

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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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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
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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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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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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