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With 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.

Baron de Montesquieu

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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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Government Law Thinking
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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Education School Two
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking

With 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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With 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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