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

Baron de Montesquieu

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours 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
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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
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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
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
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue

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