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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
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
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
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
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise

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