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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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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Earth Law Political
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
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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Country Government Reality
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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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Enough Kind Moral
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Political 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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Government Order Political
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time

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