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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Mathematics Three Triangles
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Men Succession Vain

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

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