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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

Baron de Montesquieu

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
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
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

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