Virtue has needs of limits.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUSociety is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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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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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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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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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.
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