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

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
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
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
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
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
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
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander

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