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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
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
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
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 suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
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

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

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