It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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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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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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