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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

Baron de Montesquieu

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
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
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War

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