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

Baron de Montesquieu

The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
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
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles

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