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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
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
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
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
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
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
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War

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