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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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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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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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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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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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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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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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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