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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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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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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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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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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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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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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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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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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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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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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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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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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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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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.
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