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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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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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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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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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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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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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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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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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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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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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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