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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

Baron de Montesquieu

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East

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