The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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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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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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