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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Baron de Montesquieu

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
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
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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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Fear Men Silly
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
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
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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

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