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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

Baron de Montesquieu

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 power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
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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Aunt Believe East
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
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical

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