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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Fearless Philosophical Reading
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Country Men Nothing Worth
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Manners Want
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Birth Death Men Weep
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

History People Vacant
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Cutting Government Tree

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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