The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWith truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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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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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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A rational army would run away.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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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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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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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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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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