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Baron de Montesquieu

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading

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