There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere 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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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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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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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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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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