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There are countries where a man is worth nothing there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

Baron de Montesquieu

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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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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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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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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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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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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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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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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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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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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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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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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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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
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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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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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