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Baron De Montesquieu Inspirational Quotes (123)

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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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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.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Luxury ruins republics poverty, monarchies.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
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