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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

Baron de Montesquieu

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Abuse Evil Men
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Hate Running Thinking
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
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
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality

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