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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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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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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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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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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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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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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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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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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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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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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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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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