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Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
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
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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 is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful

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