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Baron de Montesquieu

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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
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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Gratitude Men Ties
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation

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