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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
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
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
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
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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Nature Proportion Rewards
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
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

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