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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Law Liberty Philosophical

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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful

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