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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
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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Crime People Progress
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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Nature Proportion Rewards
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
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
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
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
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
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

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