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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Baron de Montesquieu

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading

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