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Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Baron de Montesquieu

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
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

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

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