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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

Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
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
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs

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