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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

Baron de Montesquieu

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
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

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