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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

Baron de Montesquieu

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
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
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
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
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
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

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