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Baron de Montesquieu

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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Government Order Political
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
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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May Obliged Wander
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Democracy 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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Democracy Fall Spirit
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason

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