There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI 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.
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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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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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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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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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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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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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