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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

Baron de Montesquieu

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation

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