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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Baron de Montesquieu

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
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
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep

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