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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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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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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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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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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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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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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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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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 have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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