The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUOne 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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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Power should be a check on power.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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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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