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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
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
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation

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