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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

Baron de Montesquieu

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
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
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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
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
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant

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