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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated

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