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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

Baron de Montesquieu

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
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
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing

…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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…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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