Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAlthough born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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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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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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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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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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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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