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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

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
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
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
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
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
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing

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