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Baron de Montesquieu

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Firsts Men Ruin
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
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
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government

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