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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Baron de Montesquieu

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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
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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Differences Independence Law
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
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
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires

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