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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Baron de Montesquieu

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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
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
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree

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