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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 love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership

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