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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

Baron de Montesquieu

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
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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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
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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Law Liberty Umpires
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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Government Law Three
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States

Nature 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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