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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Baron de Montesquieu

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
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
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind

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