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• The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

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  Law, Wickedness, Mankind

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.125, Library of Alexandria

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• If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

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  Children, Would Be, Holy

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• Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

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  Men, Inspire, Mixtures

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• Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

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  Men, Thinking, Talking

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• Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

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  Believe, Aunt, East

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• In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.

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  Dresses, Matter, Should

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• Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

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  Talking, Favors, Wit

  "Pensées Diverses" by Baron de Montesquieu, 1879.

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• The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

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  Heart, Hands, Might

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• If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

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  God, Philosophical, Two Sides

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• The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

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  Men, Luxury, Growth

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• The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

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  Philosophical, Reason, Highways

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• I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

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  Philosophical, Reading, Fearless

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• Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

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  Tyrants, Luxury, Republic

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• Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

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  War, Different, States

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• As 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.

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  War, Equality, Men

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.

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  Country, Reality, Government

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• An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

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  Life, Philosophical, Future

  "Persian Letters". Book by Montesquieu, 1721.

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• The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

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  Powerful, Sick, Ottomans

  "Persian Letters". Book by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 19, 1721.

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• Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

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  Cutting, Progression, Smooth

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.308, Library of Alexandria

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• Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

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  Friendship, Expectations, Contracts

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• Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

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  Would Be, Kind, Certain

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• The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

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  Philosophical, Law, Spirit

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• A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

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  Reading, Delight, Dull

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• Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

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  Causes, Greater, Slowness

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.440, Library of Alexandria

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• The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

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  Power, Use, Administration

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