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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

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
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
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty

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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