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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Baron de Montesquieu

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
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
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
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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Despotism Honor Political Republic
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law

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