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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Baron de Montesquieu

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
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical

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