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

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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
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 are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
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 reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War

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