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Baron de Montesquieu

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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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Law Name Tyrant
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
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
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking

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