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• There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

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  Compassion, Animal, Power

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• 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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  Witty, Coffee, Believe

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• I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

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  Religious, War, Spirit

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 65, 1721.

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• There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

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  Judging, Liberty, Ifs

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• Virtue is necessary to a republic.

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  Republic, Virtue

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• The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

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  Slavery, States

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.313, Library of Alexandria

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• The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

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  Philosophical, Law, Execution

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• The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

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  Communication, People, Commerce

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• Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

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  Praise, Empty

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 50, en.wikiquote.org. 1721.

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• In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.

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  Lying, Passion, Heart

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• Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

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  Country, Liberty, Fertility

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.359, Library of Alexandria

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• Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

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  Philosophical, Talent, Given

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• False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Men

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• They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

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  Intelligent, World, Blind

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

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  Running, Hate, Thinking

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• Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

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  Power, Men, Abuse

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• The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

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  Passion, Machines, Ruins

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• Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

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  Animal, Men, Society

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• Virtue has needs of limits.

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  Needs, Limits, Virtue

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• Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

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  Confidence, Hands, Mediocrity

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• It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

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  Men, Government, Needs

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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• 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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  Political, Honor, Would Be

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• A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

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  Writing, People, Style

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• The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

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  Knowing, Degrees, Different

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.268, Library of Alexandria

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• Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

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  Atheist, Law, Atheism

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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