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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Baron de Montesquieu

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
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
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
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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
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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership

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