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Baron de Montesquieu

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 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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Country Government Reality
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune

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