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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 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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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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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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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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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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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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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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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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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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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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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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