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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
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
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
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
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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