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.Charles de Secondat
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Charles de Secondat
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Charles de Secondat
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
Charles de Secondat
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
Charles de Secondat
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Charles de Secondat
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.
Charles de Secondat
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.
Charles de Secondat
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Equality,
His,
Into,
Man,
Sense,
Society,
Soon,
State,
Then,
War,
Weakness
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