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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical

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