There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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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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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Power should be a check on power.
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