I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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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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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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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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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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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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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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