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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
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 state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

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