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

Baron de Montesquieu

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States

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