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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Baron de Montesquieu

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat

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