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

Baron de Montesquieu

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
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
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
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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Another Doors Fortune Window
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
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

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