In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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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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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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