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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
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
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good

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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