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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
[ Freedom ]
Charles De Montesquieu
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
[ Simplicity ]
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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
[ God ]
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
[ Greatness ]
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
[ Liberty ]
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
[ Food and Eating ]
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
[ Luxury ]
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
[ Liberty ]
Charles De Montesquieu
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
[ Time and Time Management ]
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
[ Death and Dying ]
Charles De Montesquieu
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What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
Charles De Montesquieu
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