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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

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
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
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men

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