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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

Baron de Montesquieu

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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 sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

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