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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Baron de Montesquieu

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
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
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

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