Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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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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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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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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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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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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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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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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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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