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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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