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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

Baron de Montesquieu

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing

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