An injustice to one is a threat made to all
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn 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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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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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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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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