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Power should be a check on power.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
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
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
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 legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires

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