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Baron de Montesquieu

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
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
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power

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