A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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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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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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