Law should be like death, which spares no one.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUNature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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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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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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A rational army would run away.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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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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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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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.
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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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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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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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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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