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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Baron de Montesquieu

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral

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