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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 deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures

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