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

Baron de Montesquieu

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
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 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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made

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