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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

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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Democracy Equality Love
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
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
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

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