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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

Baron de Montesquieu

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law 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
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

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