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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

Baron de Montesquieu

Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
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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Abuse Men Power
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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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Despotism Honor Political Republic
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty

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