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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
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
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
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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Body Honor Thinking
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
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
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

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