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Baron de Montesquieu

Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
[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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Believe Kings Religion
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World

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