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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

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
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
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical

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