There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.Charles de Secondat
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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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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A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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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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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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