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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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 less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Justice Protection Tyranny
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
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
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Aggression Order Two War

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

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