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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
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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Christian Liberty Stranger
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
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
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
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
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership

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