As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULiberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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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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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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