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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 nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
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
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
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
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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical

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