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• Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

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  Acceptance, Done, Wonderful

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

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  Grief, Reading, Hours

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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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• The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

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  Mind, Prejudice, Superstitions

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.367, Library of Alexandria

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• Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

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  Prejudice, Cures, Trade

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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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• 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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• An injustice to one is a threat made to all

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  Injustice, Made, Threat

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• They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.

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  Writing, Attention, Care

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• It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

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  Adventure, Adventurous, Accomplish

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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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• It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

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  Men, Defense, Reason

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

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  Sophisticated, Reason, Enough

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

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  Intelligent, Men, Feels

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• There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

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  Men, Birth, Should

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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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• Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

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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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• If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

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  Running, Succeed, Catching

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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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• What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

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  Envy, Cowardice, Fortune

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