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

Baron de Montesquieu

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
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
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick

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