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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Baron de Montesquieu

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
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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Another Doors Fortune Window
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
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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Democracies Government Wisdom
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
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
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States

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