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Baron de Montesquieu

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
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
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
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
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous

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