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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

Baron de Montesquieu

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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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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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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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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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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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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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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