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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
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
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation

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