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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

Baron de Montesquieu

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
[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
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

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