No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUHonor is unknown in despotic states.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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A rational army would run away.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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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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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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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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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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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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