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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Baron de Montesquieu

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
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
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship

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