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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

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
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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Earth Law Political
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
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
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
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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Hands Heart might
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
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

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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