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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
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
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
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
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very

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