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

Baron de Montesquieu

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
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
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men

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