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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
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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Law Passion Powerful
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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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Another Doors Fortune Window
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
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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Atheism Atheist Law
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit

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