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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

Baron de Montesquieu

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
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
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People

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