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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

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
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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Believe Miracle Vanity
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
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
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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Gratitude Men Ties
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion

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