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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

It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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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Gratitude Men Ties
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
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
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War

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