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

Baron de Montesquieu

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
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
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
…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
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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