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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

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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.
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Favor Government People
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing

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