Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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 deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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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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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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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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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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