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The less men think, the more they talk.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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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There are countries where a man is worth nothing there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Vanity and pride of nations vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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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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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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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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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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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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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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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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In republican governments, men are all equal equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything in the latter, because they are nothing.
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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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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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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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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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