The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUInjustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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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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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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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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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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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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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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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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