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

Baron de Montesquieu

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic

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