You have to study a great deal to know a little.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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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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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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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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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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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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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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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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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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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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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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