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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Baron de Montesquieu

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
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
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness

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