One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAs soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
More Baron de Montesquieu Quotes
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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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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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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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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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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