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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
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 Intelligent World
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
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

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