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

Baron de Montesquieu

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
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
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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 crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
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
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral

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