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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Gambling Government Three
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
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
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Another Execute Impossible Maxims
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
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason

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