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Baron de Montesquieu

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
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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

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