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

Baron de Montesquieu

There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies

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

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