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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
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
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Aunt Believe East
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Knowing Long Success
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress

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