The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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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.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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