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

Baron de Montesquieu

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
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
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
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
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People

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