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

Baron de Montesquieu

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
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 the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
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
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
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
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence

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