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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Baron de Montesquieu

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
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
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
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
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

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