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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
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
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander

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