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Baron de Montesquieu

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
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
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
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress

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