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Law should be like death, which spares no one.

Baron de Montesquieu

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
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
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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical

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