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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

Baron de Montesquieu

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant

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