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

Baron de Montesquieu

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
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
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
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
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending

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