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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
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
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War

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