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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Baron de Montesquieu

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States

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