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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Baron de Montesquieu

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
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
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
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
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
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
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
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
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should

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