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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship

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