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Baron de Montesquieu
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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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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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A rational army would run away.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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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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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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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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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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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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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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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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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
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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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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 have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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