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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Administration Power Use
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Country Government Reality
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Despise Fool Law Men
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

People Style Writing
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Politics Republic Wisdom
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Learning Men Science
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Christian Liberty Stranger
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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Equality Men War

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