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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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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