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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.

Baron de Montesquieu

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
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
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity

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