Very good laws may be ill timed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFriendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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A rational army would run away.
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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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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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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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There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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