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Baron de Montesquieu

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
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

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