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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity

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