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Very good laws may be ill timed.

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men

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