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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

Baron de Montesquieu

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
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
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People

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