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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Baron de Montesquieu

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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 less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power

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