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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
…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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Corruption Law Republic
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order

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