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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

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic

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