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

Baron de Montesquieu

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship

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