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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
[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
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power

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