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Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep

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