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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Baron de Montesquieu

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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love

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