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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

Baron de Montesquieu

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
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
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
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

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