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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Baron de Montesquieu

Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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