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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
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
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
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People

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