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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
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 God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
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

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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