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Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
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
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
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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 is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
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
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain

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