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Baron de Montesquieu

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men 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
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
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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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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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Age Men Passion

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