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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
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.
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Firsts Men Ruin
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
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

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