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There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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Vanity and pride of nations vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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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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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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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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[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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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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Europe is a state with several provinces
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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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A rational army would run away.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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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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