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

Baron de Montesquieu

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Country Criminals Tests
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Luxury Republic Tyrants
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Democracy Nerd People

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