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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Execution Law Philosophical
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Hate Running Thinking
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.

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