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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

Baron de Montesquieu

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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
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 majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant

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