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Baron de Montesquieu

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
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
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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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Country Humanity Patriotism
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny

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