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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Baron de Montesquieu

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Administration Power Use
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican

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