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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.

Baron de Montesquieu

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
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
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 is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
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
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
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
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

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