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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

Baron de Montesquieu

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
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
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
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

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