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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Baron de Montesquieu

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin

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