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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

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
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 majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
…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
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
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

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