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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing

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