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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

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
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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Corruption Degrees Government
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
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

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.

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