I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUBetter it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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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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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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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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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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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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