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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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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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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines they feel.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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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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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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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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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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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 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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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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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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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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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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