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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Baron de Montesquieu

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
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
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible

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