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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

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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Favor Government People
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
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 success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War

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