Charles de Secondat

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#happy #people #tiresome #whose

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#honorable #individually #mass #people #rogues

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. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#appears #argue #competing #devout #here

Power ought to serve as a check to power. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#check #ought #serve