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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
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
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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

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