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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

Baron de Montesquieu

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
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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Firsts Men Ruin
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World

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