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

Baron de Montesquieu

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
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
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
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
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
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
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men

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