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Baron de Montesquieu

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 spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
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
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
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
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign

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