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Baron De Montesquieu Inspirational Quotes (122)

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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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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines they feel.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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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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Republics end through luxury monarchies through poverty.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
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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.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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A rational army would run away.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Vanity and pride of nations vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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