Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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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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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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