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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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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Arguing People Religion
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Catching Running Succeed

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