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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

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