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Baron De Montesquieu Inspirational Quotes (123)

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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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