Very good laws may be ill timed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPower ought to serve as a check to power.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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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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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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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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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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