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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering 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
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
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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Apathy Democracy Wisdom

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

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