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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
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
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
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.
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Government Law Three
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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
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
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

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