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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Baron de Montesquieu

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
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
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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