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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

Baron de Montesquieu

The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Busy English Polite Time
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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Government Law Thinking
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Mathematics Three Triangles
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence

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