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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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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 of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
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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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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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
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good

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