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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
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
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
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 love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

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