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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Baron de Montesquieu

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
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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Favor Government People
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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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Believe Coffee Witty
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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Cutting Government Tree
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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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Equality Men War
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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
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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Difficult People Since Thinking
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish

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