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• Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

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  Passion, Feels

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• The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

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  Men, Vain, Succession

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• Power should be a check on power.

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  Evil, Good And Evil, Checks

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• Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

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  Reading, Men, Library

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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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• It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

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  Birthday, People, Age

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

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  Adventure, Adventurous, Accomplish

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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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• Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

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  Prejudice, Cures, Trade

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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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• When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

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  Law, Liberty, Enforcement

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

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  Intelligent, Men, Feels

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

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  Men, Birth, Should

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• It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.

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  Thinking, Government, Law

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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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