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Baron de Montesquieu

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
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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God Nature Science
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit

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