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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

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
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
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
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury

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

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