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

Baron de Montesquieu

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
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
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence

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