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

Baron de Montesquieu

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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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Country Humanity Patriotism

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