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

Baron de Montesquieu

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
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
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick

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