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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Baron de Montesquieu

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Certain Foolishness Kind
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Differences Independence Law
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
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
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
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.
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Democracy Equality Love
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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