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Baron de Montesquieu

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
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality

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