Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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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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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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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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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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