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An injustice to one is a threat made to all

Baron de Montesquieu

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Courage Law Morality
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Democracy Equality Love

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

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