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Baron de Montesquieu

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
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
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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.
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Hate Running Thinking
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership

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