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Baron de Montesquieu

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
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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Hate Running Thinking
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
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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Law Name Tyrant
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
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
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty

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