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Baron de Montesquieu

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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
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
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
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
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State

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