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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Baron de Montesquieu

Law should be like death, which spares no one.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Spare
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
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Another Execute Impossible Maxims
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
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 success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
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

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