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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
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
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
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
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 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

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

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