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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Baron de Montesquieu

In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace 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
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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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
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
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick

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