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

Baron de Montesquieu

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
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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Law Passion Powerful
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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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Government Law Republic
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans

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