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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

Baron de Montesquieu

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
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
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
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
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
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

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