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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

Baron de Montesquieu

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Aunt Believe East
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Differences Independence Law
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Action Law Lending
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

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