Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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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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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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