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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

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
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
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
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards

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