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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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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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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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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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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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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
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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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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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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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