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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

Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking

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.

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