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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

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
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
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
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
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
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
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

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