The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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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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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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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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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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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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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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