Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFalse happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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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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