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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Baron de Montesquieu

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
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
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise

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