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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

Baron de Montesquieu

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
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
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
…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
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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