A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn 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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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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