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Baron de Montesquieu

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
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
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
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading

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