Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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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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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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