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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Baron de Montesquieu

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

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