Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMen should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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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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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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