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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
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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Magic Two Wisdom
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
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
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
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
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
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

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