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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de Montesquieu

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform

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