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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

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
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
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
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
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
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
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain

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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