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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
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
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
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
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

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