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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Baron de Montesquieu

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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 culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
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
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
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 the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship

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