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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

Baron de Montesquieu

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War

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