Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPolitical liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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