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I should like to abolish funerals the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Baron de Montesquieu

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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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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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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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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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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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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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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 hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
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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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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.
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Vanity and pride of nations vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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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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