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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Baron de Montesquieu

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political

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