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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Baron de Montesquieu

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
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
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States

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