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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.

Baron de Montesquieu

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
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
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery

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