Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPeace is a natural effect of trade.
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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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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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A rational army would run away.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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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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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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