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

Baron de Montesquieu

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Aunt Believe East
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
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
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power

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