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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

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Aunt Believe East
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue

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