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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window

What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

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