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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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[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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Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.
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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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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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I should like to abolish funerals the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines they feel.
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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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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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...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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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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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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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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