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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 is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines they feel.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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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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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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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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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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I should like to abolish funerals the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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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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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
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