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Baron de Montesquieu

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
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
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
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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Ambition Community Mind
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power

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