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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

Baron de Montesquieu

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Philosophical Spirit
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
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
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
A 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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Men Speak Writing
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork

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