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Baron de Montesquieu

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
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
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
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
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent

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