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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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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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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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