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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
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
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
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
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
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality

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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