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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
In 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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Body Diversity Movement
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men

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