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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Baron de Montesquieu

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Character Connections Jurisprudence
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Liberty Umpires
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Description Paradise Sensible

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