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Europe is a state with several provinces

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
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
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
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
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
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
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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

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