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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

Baron de Montesquieu

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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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Body Diversity Movement
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
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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Despotism Honor Political Republic
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret

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