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

Baron de Montesquieu

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
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
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States

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