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Baron de Montesquieu

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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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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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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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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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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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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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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
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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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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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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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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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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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