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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

Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
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 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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