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Baron de Montesquieu

Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
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
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked

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