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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
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
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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