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

Baron de Montesquieu

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People

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