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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership

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