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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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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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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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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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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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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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Luxury ruins republics poverty, monarchies.
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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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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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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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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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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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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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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 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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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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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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