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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
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
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue

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