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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUDemocracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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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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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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