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Baron de Montesquieu

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
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish

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