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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Baron de Montesquieu

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
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
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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
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
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship

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