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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.

Baron de Montesquieu

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
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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Democracy Fall Spirit
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.

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