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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Baron de Montesquieu

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

Justice Protection Tyranny
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Country Humanity Patriotism
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
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
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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
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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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
…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

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