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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
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
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War

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