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

Baron de Montesquieu

The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
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
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious 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
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science

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