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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Baron de Montesquieu

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
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
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power

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