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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
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
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 only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs

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