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

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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking

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

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