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Better 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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion

Better 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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