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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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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Happiness Laughter Men
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power

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