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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Baron de Montesquieu

Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
There 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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Country Government Reality
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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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Another Doors Fortune Window
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
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
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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