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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
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
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
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking

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