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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

Baron de Montesquieu

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Citizens Men Naked
Very good laws may be ill timed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Good Law May Very
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Bigs Favors Friendship
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Cutting Government Tree
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 less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Citizens Men Society
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Firsts Men Ruin
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Citizens May Order
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

History People Vacant

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