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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

Baron de Montesquieu

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

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