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Montesquieu: '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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Montesquieu: 'In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.'

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Montesquieu: 'You have to study a great deal to know a little.'

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Montesquieu: 'The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.'

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Montesquieu: 'Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.'

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

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Montesquieu: 'Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.'

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Montesquieu: '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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Montesquieu: 'Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.'

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Montesquieu: 'The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.'

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Montesquieu: 'I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.'

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Montesquieu: 'We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.'

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Montesquieu: 'No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.'

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Montesquieu: 'If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.'

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Montesquieu: 'Power ought to serve as a check to power.'

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Montesquieu: 'There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.'

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Montesquieu: 'The less men think, the more they talk.'

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Montesquieu: 'To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.'

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Montesquieu: 'There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.'

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Moliere: 'If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.'

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