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Baron de Montesquieu

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
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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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Abuse Peace Tendencies
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power

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