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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Baron de Montesquieu

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
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
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
…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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

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