An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEURaillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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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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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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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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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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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.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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