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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions

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