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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War

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