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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

Baron de Montesquieu

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
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
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
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
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

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