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Baron de Montesquieu

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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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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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...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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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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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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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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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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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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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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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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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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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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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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