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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Baron de Montesquieu

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
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 not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep

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