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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
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
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
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
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
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
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
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship

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