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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
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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Powerful Sick
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War

There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.

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