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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
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
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

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