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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

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
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
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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Hate Running Thinking
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
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
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise

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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