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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Baron de Montesquieu

Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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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Men Politics Republican
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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