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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People

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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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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