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Should Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu
- Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
- The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
- 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…
- There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
- Power should be a check on power.
- 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…
- When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
- I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
- The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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