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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty

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