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

Baron de Montesquieu

Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership

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