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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
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 deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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

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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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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