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Baron de Montesquieu

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
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans

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