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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
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
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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 clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
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
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind

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