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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

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
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
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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Gratitude Men Ties

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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