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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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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Another Doors Fortune Window
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
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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Machines Passion Ruins
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
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
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

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