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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

Baron de Montesquieu

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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Favor Government People
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace 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
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Aunt Believe East
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

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