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• It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

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  Learning, Science, Men

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• A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

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  Intelligent, Men, Feels

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• The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

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  Justice, Protection, Tyranny

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• When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

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  Government, Degrees, Corruption

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.169, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

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  Sophisticated, Reason, Enough

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• Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

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  Government, Liberty, Enjoy

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.385, Library of Alexandria

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• There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

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  War, Order, Two

  "Persian Letters". No. 95, 1721.

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• There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

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  Three, Triangles, Mathematics

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• The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

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  Men, Naked, Citizens

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXIII: Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to the Number of Inhabitants, Ch. 29: Of Hospitals, 1748.

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• An injustice to one is a threat made to all

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  Injustice, Made, Threat

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• Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.

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  Passion, Self, Knowing

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• Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

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  Prejudice, Cures, Trade

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• Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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  Philosophical, Lunch, Paris

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• There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

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  Law, Example, Morality

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• There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

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  Grief, Reading, Hours

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• The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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  Christian, Liberty, Stranger

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

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  Favors, May, Given

  "Persian Letters". Book by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 76, 1721.

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• This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

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  Punishment, Sick, Remedy

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.229, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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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.

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  Powerful, Passion, Law

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• I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

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  Book, Writing, Suffering

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• Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.

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  Government, Order, Political

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• Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

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  Teamwork, Men, People

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXV: Of Laws in Relation to the Establishment of Religion and its External Polity, Ch. 2: Of the Motives of Attachment to Different Religions, 1748.

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• But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

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  Men, Abuse, Authority

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.205, Library of Alexandria

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• Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

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  Government, Political, Liberty

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.205, Library of Alexandria

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• When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

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  Cutting, Government, Tree

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