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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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• 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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• Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

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  Thinking, Religion, Gods Will

  "Lettres Persanes" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 35, 1721.

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• The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.

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  Order, Long, Riches

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• The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

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  Believe, Vanity, Miracle

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• Europe is a state with several provinces

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  Country, Europe, States

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• If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse

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  Gratitude, Believe, People

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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 are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

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  Gambling, Government, Three

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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• I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

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  Paradise, Description, Sensible

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 125, 1721.

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• Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

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  Men, Secret, Gunpowder

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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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• Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

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  Men, Giving, Slavery

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

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• Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

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  Writing, Simplicity, Facts

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.456, Library of Alexandria

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• Power ought to serve as a check to power.

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  Power, Checks, Ought

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• In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

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  Shapes, States, Institutions

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

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  Philosophical, Lunch, Paris

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• People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

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  People, Religion, Arguing

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• [The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

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  Kings, Believe, Religion

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 24, 1721.

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• When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

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  Law, Want, Manners

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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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• 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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• I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

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  May, Wander, Obliged

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

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• As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.

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  Passion, Men, Age

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• Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

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  Country, Republic, Virtue

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.13, Library of Alexandria

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