Quotes by Montesquieu - Page 2

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Footwear
Highways
Inconvenient
Paved
Romans
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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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Future
Fool
Generations
Author
Content
Future Generations
Insists
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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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Nations
Particular
Arises
Begins
Whence
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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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Justice
Tyranny
Name
Shield
Than
Which
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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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Greater
Justice
Tyranny
Name
Shield
Than
Which
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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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Passion
Powerful
Reason
Laws
Nation
Principals
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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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Chiefs
Infancy
Institutions
State
Later
Societies
Shape
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Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
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Bored
Fool
Generations
Author
Content
Insists
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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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Age
Corruption
Mature
Spoiled
Young
Age People Young
Those
Degenerate
Till
Sunk
Young People
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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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Apathy
Dangerous
Democracy
Oligarchy
Public Welfare
Tyranny
Welfare
Citizen
Public
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Administration
Occasions
Sublimity
Consists
Degree
Exerted
Proper
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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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Equality
Society
War
Loses
Weakness
Ceases
State
Sense
Soon
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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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Experience
Abuse
Authority
Constant
Every Man
Shows
Power Man Will
Go
Man
Apt
As Far As
Carry
Every
Far
His
Invested
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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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Religion
Competing
Time People See
Appears
Devout
Least
Same Time
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Form
Gratitude
Greater
One Thing
Between
Bond
Else
Over
Only One Thing
We Cannot
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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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Boundaries
East
Prosperous
Enlighten
Limit
Lore
Realm
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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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Aggression
Cases
Enemy
Order
Ally
Attacked
Resist
Second
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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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Establishment
Slavery
Life Power Man
Absolute
Master
Properly
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Proud
Sensible
True Happiness
False
Stern
Shared
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Happy
Difficult
Easy
People
Want
Wanted
Since
Always People Difficult
Always
Almost
Only
Always People Easy
Be Happy
Happier
Difficult People Easy
Would
Other
Than
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Ready
Walks
Window
Door
Flies
Receive
Says
Visit
Whom
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion
Eclipse
Human Reason
Intolerance
Reason
Religious
Religious Wars
Spirit
Spread
Caused
Wars
Total
Fact
Regarded
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Constancy
Moved
Quantity
Uniformity
Velocity
According
Bodies
Diminished
Increased
Motion
Received
Relations
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Cases
Human Reason
Ought
Particular
Applied
General
Civil
Nation
Governs
Inasmuch
Inhabitants
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Propose
Accidentally
Nation
French
Ruin
Serve
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
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Blind
Effects
Fatality
Intelligent
Unreasonable
Absurdly
Assert
Behold
Beings
Pretend
Produced
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Independence
Liberty
Permit
Possessed
Constantly
Citizen
Difference
Whatever
Forbid
Longer
Minds
Present
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Injury
Nations
Ought
Founded
War Time Peace
Interests
Principle
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Absurd
Arbitrary
Creation
Fatality
Rules
Atheists
Govern
Subsist
Thus
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Apprehension
Arise
Body
Liberty
May
Senate
Should
United
Person
Because
Laws
Same
Them
Enact
Execute
Executive
Legislative
Manner
Monarch
Powers
Tyrannical
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