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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Baron de Montesquieu

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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
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 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
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

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