Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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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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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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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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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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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