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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Baron de Montesquieu

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men

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