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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
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
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
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
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
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
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
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

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