An injustice to one is a threat made to all
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVery good laws may be ill timed.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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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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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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A rational army would run away.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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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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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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