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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men

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